wtf, weather?

[ilanarama]

It is raining. In Colorado, at 6600 feet, in January. WTF, weather? Where is my snow?

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[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Dude. Freaky. *g*

Meanwhile, it snowed here last night. In Coastal California. *big eyes* Didn't stick, of course, not at my elevation, but still. Snow. Coming down. In flakes.

Woah.

And when I left Suzi's place at 10:30pm, there was enough ice on my windshield that it took a borrowed scraper (I don't even own one, not one that'll deal with real ice) and about ten minutes' work before I could see well enough to get home. *is a complete weather wuss*

All y'all cold climate types, you can keep the frozen-precipitation weather in all its forms, and welcome to it.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

It's nicer when it falls as little pretty white flakes that slide off your body! Rain gets you wet when you walk back home through it and you didn't bring an umbrella because it's January, and that stormy-looking sky augurs snow, right?

Here. I'll trade.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Swapsies! :-D

[catbear.livejournal.com]

Yuh, our three day old two-inch layer of snow just got rained away again.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

We still have some snow from a few weeks ago, in northern-exposure spots, and it's getting transformed into ice, I think.

[dipping_sauce]

It's crazy up here too. We only have an eeeny weeny bit of snow, and it's the middle of January!

(It is, however, cold. I am scared for February.)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

It isn't even cold. 40F. Phooey. I mean, when it's sunny out the 40F feels really warm - I go running in shirtsleeves - but when it's all cloudy and precipitating in the winter it's supposed to be colder than that.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

We've got it! Come over here and get all you like. I don't remember it being this bad in years, and now it's Stock Show weather - hovering around 5, and we picked up another inch. Cold, cold, cold all weekend long.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Wowie! I feel like I'm in the Colorado Banana Belt. I went running yesterday in a t-shirt, no lie. It is supposed to get colder for the weekend after this storm clears up, and maybe we'll get snow when the temperature drops overnight, but right now this weather reminds me of a Baltimore winter.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

We've got the fricken COLD blast of arctic air thing
going on here right now.
It's supposed to get into the low 20's tonight ...
It'll be freezen some of the citris crops around here.

Funny you guys aren't getting it ... since you're
only a few mountain ranges over.

We haven't had a cold blast like this in at least 10 years.
Maybe ... I forget when that last one was ... I might have been
1994 (I remember the building I was working in then).

Hopefully Colorado weather will be back to normal by June,
when I'm out there.

Are you guys going to be around in June?

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

We'll be back in mid-late June, I don't know when. We're heading out on the boat in March with plans to be back sometime June. But if you're here you are welcome to stay with us! We owe you!

I'll be out your way, sort of, in another four weeks - I just made reservations to join Oren at Heavenly for skiing for a couple of days. We're flying in to Reno and then driving back to Santa Clara with him to spend the night (you were at his place once, weren't you?) and then back home from SJC.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

The AHA National Homebrew Competition Finals
are in Denver on June 21-23 ...
so I'm thinking of driving there and back,
and seeing and doing stuff one the way there
and back.

So hopefully you guys will be back at the end
of June, and I can see you as I make the journey
back.

I'll let you know as the event draws closer.

And yes, I was at your brothers Oren's place.
Although I can't remember where it is exactly.

Hopefull we'll see you when you're here.

You might be here for "Beerapalooza",
which is from Feb 10-18th.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Well, we will be there but we won't be there - we are not going to hang around SJ much.

And depending on how our timing works we will be around for your return trip! No guarantees but it's a good possibility.

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

I'm perfectly happy for you to have no snow, if it means our summer stays as mild as it has been.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Well, it eventually turned to snow, so you are probably broiling now.

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

Not quite broiling at least not in the city because it is close to the coast, but they are suffering out west. It was over 37C (99F) today.

[saramwrap.livejournal.com]

Your snow has been exported to Seattle, where I almost didn't leave because everything got all white and slippery.

Well, maybe not... does Colorado get the weird hominy snow that's round and bouncy? I'd heard of it but never seen it here in Maryland.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee, wildcelticrose who lives in Seattle posted photos. I guess they are not used to actual winter weather!

And as I have replied elsewhere, you're talking about graupel, which is what you get when a snow crystal falling through the cloud collides with supercooled water droplets that freeze onto the crystal. This process is called riming, and it results in a soft roundish blob. We don't get this much - mostly just in fall and spring, otherwise temperatures aloft are too cold.

We finally did get some snow (about an inch) and now it's cold and clear and pretty.

[saramwrap.livejournal.com]

I read all about it on Wikipedia! I really liked the graupel, it was light and dry and bouncy. I didn't end up drenched like I do with our light snows in Maryland.

We might get flurries, now that the weather is more like winter... time will tell!

[revbiscuit.livejournal.com]

I think the world is going mad. Two years ago it snowed in Florence while we were visiting. In March. Pete was extremely confused.

[de-wynken.livejournal.com]

what amazes me, is that CDOT is out en force dropping sand on 172 at least. I hope it doesn't freeze tonight.

I also hope you're listening to KSUT tonight..it's an incrediable Global Groove show!!

[revbiscuit.livejournal.com]

LOL! Have you seen this?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/13012007/344/snowball-shipping-conundrum.html

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

There was an article in the paper! They delivered 30 snowballs in a cooler! I though it was pretty funny.